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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (15 April 1772 – 19 June 1844) was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories. Geoffroy's scientific views had a transcendental flavor (unlike Lamarck's materialistic views ...
Apr 11, 2024 · Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (born April 15, 1772, Étampes, Fr.—died June 19, 1844, Paris) was a French naturalist who established the principle of “unity of composition,” postulating a single consistent structural plan basic to all animals as a major tenet of comparative anatomy, and who founded teratology, the study of animal ...
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Dec 1, 2021 · Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was the second major founder of comparative anatomy after George Cuvier (August 23, 1769–May 13, 1832). After the French Revolution, in 1793, together with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire reorganized the Jardin du Roi in the new Muséum national de l'histoire naturelle , a model of modern ...
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Aug 5, 2013 · Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, commonly known as Geoffroy, studied animals, their anatomy and their embryos, and teratogens at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (15 April 1772 – 19 June 1844) was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories.
